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2 ARMY MEDICINE LINES OF EFFORT Army Medicine Mission: Army Medicine provides sustained health services and research in support of the Total Force to enable readiness and conserve the fighting strength while caring for our Soldiers for Life and Families. Army Medicine Vision: Army Medicine is the Nation s premier expeditionary and globally integrated medical force ready to meet the ever-changing challenges of today and tomorrow. Readiness and Health (Decisive Operation) End State: Current Conditions Healthcare Delivery (Shaping Operation) Force Development (Shaping Operation) Army Medicine of 2025 and beyond, as an integrated system for health, is the Nation s first choice for prompt and sustained expeditionary health services. Take Care of Ourselves our Soldiers for Life, DA Civilians, and Families (Sustaining

3 Readiness and Health (Decisive Operation) The Chief of Staff of the Army s number one priority is readiness. Likewise, our primary mission is supporting the Warfighter s readiness. In supporting the Warfighter, we uphold the solemn commitment our Nation s Army has made to our Soldiers when sending them in harm s way. We must be agile, adaptive, flexible, and responsive to Warfighter requirements. We must remain ready, relevant, and reliable. Our readiness to deploy healthy individuals and organizations in support of the world s premier combat force must be without question. Healthcare Delivery (Shaping Operation) Our fundamental tasks are promoting, improving, conserving, or restoring the behavioral and physical well-being of those entrusted to our care. From the battlefield to the garrison environment, we will support the Operational requirements of Combatant Commanders while also ensuring the delivery of the healthcare benefit to our beneficiaries. The quality healthcare we deliver to our beneficiaries, and especially our Families, allows the Warfighter to remain focused on the task at hand. As a vital component of healthcare delivery, ensuring our Medical Treatment Facilities as Health Readiness Platforms (HRPs) are properly staffed with highly trained personnel will remain a focus. Force Development (Shaping Operation): The future of Army Medicine at the individual, organizational, and enterprise levels is being determined today. We must rapidly develop scalable and rapidly deployable medical capabilities that are responsive to Operational needs and are able to effectively operate in a Joint/Combined environment characterized by highly distributed operations and minimal, if any, pre-established health service infrastructure. We need to continue to incorporate lessons learned from recent combat experiences. We must develop agile and adaptive leaders who are able to effectively operate and achieve success in an environment of a constant state of flux while navigating to and through an unknowing and unknowable future. The Operational Framework (ADRP 3-0) Decisive Operation: A decisive operation is the operation that directly accomplishes the mission. Shaping Operation: A shaping operation is an operation that establishes conditions for the decisive operation through effects on the enemy, other actors, and the terrain. Sustaining Operation: A sustaining operation is an operation at any echelon that enables the decisive operation or shaping operations by generating and maintaining combat power. U.S. Army Medical Command Team Lt. Gen. Nadja Y. West The Surgeon General and Commanding General U.S. Army Medical Command Command Sgt. Maj. Michael L. Gragg Command Sergeant Major U.S. Army Medical Command U.S. Army Medicine Directorate of Public Affairs Col. Wayne Marotto Director, Public Affairs Take Care of Ourselves, our Soldiers for Life, DA Civilians, and Families (Sustaining Operation): Our Forces, Soldiers for Life, Service Colleagues, DA Civilians, and service member Families are our strength and we will continue to take care of them. We must treat each other with dignity and respect. Craig Dyer Deputy, Public Affairs Jennifer Donnelly Graphic Designer

4 Army Medicine will continue to stand as a unique organization that has the versatility, agility and scale to adapt to the challenges that arise at home or abroad. ~ Lt. Gen. Nadja Y. West The Surgeon General and Commanding General U.S. Army Medical Command

5 JANUARY 2018 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY New Year s Day : General George Washington orders smallpox inoculation for the Army. 13 Pvt. Herman L. Longerbeam, a litter bearer, earns the DSC during WWII. Longerbeam treated six wounded Soldiers under heavy fire and evacuated another through half a mile of deep snow Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday : Operation Desert Storm begins : Medical Aidman, Tech 4 Laverne Parrish earns the Medal of Honor during World War II : The Army Medical School was established at Washington, D.C. by Brig. Gen. George M. Sternberg : Spc. 4 Donald W. Evans Jr., specialist four combat medic, earns the Medal of Honor in Vietnam. 1919: The AMEDD enlisted strength was 219,100 medical and dental personnel, and 13,500 veterinary personnel. NOTES Army Medicine Observances National Blood Donor Month Cervical Cancer Awareness Month ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE...CONSERVING THE FIGHTING STRENGTH SINCE 1775!

6 Preparing for the unknown is always the biggest challenge. We live in a volatile, uncertain, chaotic, and ambiguous environment. It s easy to prepare for the injuries and illnesses from the last war, but we rarely fight the same war twice. ~ Maj. Gen. Barbara R. Holcomb Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick, MD; Chief, U.S. Army Nurse Corps

7 FEBRUARY 2018 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY : Brig. Gen. Hal B. Jennings Jr. assumes command of the 44th Medical Brigade at Long Binh, Vietnam, with additional duty as surgeon, Headquarters, U.S. Army, Vietnam. 8 Army Nurse Corps Birthday Groundhog Day : Three-hundred Army physician assistants transitioned from warrant officer status to appointments as Army Medical Specialist Corps commissioned officers : Medical Corps officers authorized military rank Ash Wednesday Valentine s Day Washington s Birthday : Start of ground phase of Operation Desert Storm. 1973: General Order #7, Department of the Army, authorized the organization of Health Services Command. Liberation Day Kuwait 1991: End of ground phase of Operation Desert Storm. NOTES Army Medicine Observances Heart Health Month Army Nurse Corps Birthday - Feb 2 ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE...CONSERVING THE FIGHTING STRENGTH SINCE 1775!

8 By incorporating all eight pillars (activity, nutrition, family/social, spiritual, emotional, surroundings, sleep, and personal development) into our system for health, we are able to look at every approach of the cause of pain and find the best way to treat our patients. By using Move to Health we are able to identify additional areas that may either contribute or prevent the recovery from pain that typically has not been blatantly visible. ~ Col. Deydre Teyhen Commander, U.S. Army Health Clinic, Schofield Barracks

9 MARCH 2018 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Army Enlisted Medical Corps Birthday 8 9 Army Dental Corps Birthday : Army Ambulance Corps established during the Civil War. Daylight savings time begins National Sleep Awareness Week : Dogs officially became a U.S. Army asset. Care and health maintenance of military canines would be veterinary missions from this point forward : First Army dentist promoted to Brig. Gen., Leigh C. Fairbank. Patient Safety Awareness Week St. Patrick s Day Spring Begins : George F. Shiels, a surgeon, earns the Medal of Honor in a battle near the Tuliahan River, in the Philippine Islands. AMEDD Civilian Corps Birthday 1942: Raymond Kelser becomes the first Veterinary Corps brigadier general. Good Friday Passover Begins NOTES Army Medicine Observances National Nutrition Month National Brain Injury Awareness Month National Sleep Awareness Week - Mar 2-9 Patient Safety Awareness Week - Mar Army Enlisted Medical Corps Birthday - Mar 1 Army Dental Corps Birthday - Mar 3 AMEDD Civilian Corps Birthday - Mar 26 ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE...CONSERVING THE FIGHTING STRENGTH SINCE 1775!

10 What Medical Readiness and Training Command (MRTC) does, as the only collective medical training command in the Army, is to help prepare our forces for whatever mission they may be called to execute. It is fitting that MRTC is in the Army Reserve given the majority of deployable medical units are in the Army Reserve. ~ Brig. Gen. Michael C. O Guinn Deputy Surgeon General, U.S. Army Reserve

11 APRIL 2018 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY : Hospital Steward William Saunders is recognized as the first U.S. Army Dentist : Pay of nurses in Army hospitals raised to $8 per month plus a ration; matron (chief nurse) reeived $15 plus a ration. World Health Day Easter Sunday Passover Ends : Mary E. Walker, the only female recipient of the Medal of Honor is captured by Confederate troops : Dr. John Sayre Marshall becomes the Army s first commissioned dental officer Army Medical Specialist Corps Birthday : Medical Reserve Corps created, first element of the Army Reserve. Earth Day U.S. Army Reserve Birthday : Surgeon General Sternberg gets approval to hire female nurses at $30 month plus a ration. NOTES Army Medicine Observances Military Children s Health Month National Alcohol Awareness Month World Health Day - Apr 7 Army Medical Specialist Corps Birthday - Apr 16 ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE...CONSERVING THE FIGHTING STRENGTH SINCE 1775!

12 We must ensure the Army remains ready as the world s premier combat force. It is paramount that MEDCOM continue to develop, deploy, and sustain expert medical care for our Soldiers and their Families. ~ Gen. Mark A. Milley Chief of Staff of the Army

13 MAY 2018 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY : Walter Reed General Hospital opens : The 498th Medical Company (Air Ambulance) ends its operations in OIF after the company evacuated 740 patients in 314 missions during 1,687 flight hours : Sharon A. Lane, Army Nurse Corps, begins training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Lane is the only U.S. Army Nurse killed in Vietnam as a result of hostile fire. 12 National Nurse s Week Mother s Day : American Red Cross founded Women s Health Week : Sgt. 1st Class (later WO) Louis R. Rocco, an enlisted medical advisor with MACV, earns the Medal of Honor by providing treatment and rescuing wounded troops from a burning helicopter, sustaining serious wounds himself Armed Forces Day : First female in the Medical Corps, Dr. (Maj.) Margaret Craighill during WWII. Memorial Day 1945: 2,150 dietitians and 1,700 physical therapists were authorized by the War Department. NOTES Army Medicine Observances National Mental Health Month National Physical Fitness & Sports Month Better Speech & Hearing Month National Nurse s Week - May 6-12 Women s Health Week - May ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE...CONSERVING THE FIGHTING STRENGTH SINCE 1775!

14 I m happy to be playing even a small role in keeping Soldiers and Families healthy and hopefully influencing a nation of healthier people in the process. ~ Maj. Gen. Patrick D. Sargent Deputy Commanding General for Operations, U.S. Army Medical Command

15 JUNE 2018 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Army Veterinary Corps Birthday : D-Day, Normandy Invasion : 1st Lt. Sharon Lane, Army Nurse Corps, is killed by a rocket attack on the 312th Evac Hospital. Lane would be the only Army nurse killed as the result of enemy activity in Vietnam Father s Day : Lt. Col. Doris S. Frazier is the first Army Nurse Corps officer to graduate from the Army War College : Expert Field Medical Badge approved. 1812: U.S. Congress declares war on Britain beginning the War of Army Birthday Flag Day : James Okubo is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor 55 years after his actions, as a combat medic during World War II. Summer Begins : Operation Inherent Resolve begins. 1950: North Korean invasion of South Korea starts the Korean War. Army Medical Service Corps Birthday NOTES Army Medicine Observances National Men s Health Month National Safety Month/Summer Safety Army Veterinary Corps Birthday - Jun 3 Army Medical Service Corps Birthday - Jun 30 ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE...CONSERVING THE FIGHTING STRENGTH SINCE 1775!

16 Remind yourself often of where you have been and why you do what you do; to serve patients and their families, to ease pain and suffering, to heal the sick and bring comfort to those in need, to make others whole again. Always listen first and place the patient first never stop learning. ~ Col. Andrew M. Barr Commander, Tripler Army Medical Center

17 JULY 2018 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY : Maj. Charles Kelley killed in Vietnam; his call sign would be adopted for all medevac flights: DUSTOFF : The Battle of Gettysburg ends with over 14,000 US WIA, and over 18,000 CSA WIA. Camp Letterman is established onsite to care for the wounded. 10 Independence Day : Cpt. Ben Salomon was killed in action at Saipan while defending patients. He was later awarded the Medal of Honor and is the only dentist to date to earn the award : U.S. Army Pharmacy Corps established : James Craik becomes the Physician General of the U.S. Army AMEDD/Army Medical Corps Birthday NOTES Army Medicine Observances AMEDD/Army Medical Corps Birthday - Jul 27 ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE...CONSERVING THE FIGHTING STRENGTH SINCE 1775!

18 To get ready for combat we have to train. So we train hard on a daily basis to get ready for combat so we can bring as many home as we can. ~ Staff Sgt. Christopher Waiters Army Medic

19 AUGUST 2018 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY U.S. Coast Guard Birthday : 112th Medical Brigade (Ohio National Guard) enters federal service : 112th Medical Brigade (Ohio National Guard) enters federal service : First Chief of the Dental Corps appointed, Maj. William H.G. Logan : TOE A was published, providing for the first time, the organization and equipment of an air ambulance detachment of 7 officers, 21 enlisted men, and 5 utility helicopters. 1945: Victory over Japan Day : The first class of 16 Army dietitian students enter duty at Walter Reed General Hospital. 1967: The 18th Medical Brigade (later the 18th Medical Command) is activated at Fort Lee, Virginia. 25 Women s Equality Day 1988: Ramstein Air Show disaster, resulting in the death of AMEDD MEDEVAC pilot Cpt. Kim Strader. NOTES Army Medicine Observances National Immunization & Influenza Vaccine Awareness Month ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE...CONSERVING THE FIGHTING STRENGTH SINCE 1775!

20 We are facing dynamic challenges that demand our collective and immediate actions...future forces, ranging from small units to traditional military formations, may be widely dispersed with minimal, if any, pre-established health care infrastructure. [This] is the reason why Army Medicine is accelerating and fully investing in virtual health. ~ Maj. Gen. Robert D. Tenhet Deputy Surgeon General and Deputy Commanding General (Support) U.S. Army Medical Command

21 SEPTEMBER 2018 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY : Two helicopters are assigned to the evacuation of wounded from 2nd Infantry Division clearing stations to the 8076 MASH, the first dedicated medevac helicopters. 8 9 Labor Day : The 4th Medical Brigade is constituted in the Organized Reserves as the 4th Auxiliary Surgical Group Patriot Day & National Day of Service & Rememberance 18 Suicide Prevention Week : 1st Lt. Kenneth Ledford, Jr. performs actions that earned him the Navy Cross The only Army recipient of the Navy Cross in Vietnam : The influenza epidemic hits Camp Pike, Arkansas, with 450 cases admitted to the Base Hospital. 1862: The Battle of Antietam left almost 24,000 WIA, the bloodiest day of the Civil War. U.S. Air Force Birthday Yom Kippur Patriot National POW/ MIA Recognition Day : Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld announces that the war against terrorism outside the United States would be known as Operation Enduring Freedom. 1877: Maj. Henry R. Tilton, Surgeon, earns the Medal of Honor at Bear Paw Mountain in Montana. Autumn Begins 29 NOTES Army Medicine Observances Childhood Obesity Awareness Month Pain Awareness Month Suicide Prevention Week - Sep ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE...CONSERVING THE FIGHTING STRENGTH SINCE 1775!

22 Often, when we think of readiness, we re only thinking of the warfighter or active-duty Soldier. But there are a lot of other green suiters who go to support that warfighter, and that s our medical team. ~ Lt. Col. Leah Triolt Orthopedic Surgeon, 67th Forward Surgical Team

23 OCTOBER 2018 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1966: The Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) is created, and provides care and services for military dependents and retired military personnel : U.S. Army Health Services Command is redesignated U.S. Army Medical Command. (MEDCOM) : Army Dental Corps officers were granted the same rank, pay, promotion, and retirement rights as officers of the Medical Corps : Operation Enduring Freedom begins. Columbus Day U.S. Navy Birthday : 212th MASH colors are cased, and the 212th is redesignated and reorganized as the 212th CSH (Combat Support Hospital) : The Army s first trainees start licensed practical nurse training at Walter Reed Army Hospital : The Bolton Bill (Public Law 294, 84th Congress) is approved. The Bolton Bill provided for the commissioning of male nurses in the Army Nurse Corps : The 807th Medical Brigade/Command is constituted in the Army of the United States as the 807th Medical Service Detachment. Halloween NOTES Army Medicine Observances Breast Cancer Awareness Month Substance Abuse Awareness Month National Disability Employment Awareness Month ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE...CONSERVING THE FIGHTING STRENGTH SINCE 1775!

24 We need our Soldiers to know we are delivering the quality of care and meeting the requirement to support the Force, whether in peacetime or in combat. They can count on Army Medicine without any shadow of a doubt. ~ Brig. Gen. R. Scott Dingle Commander, Regional Health Command - Atlantic

25 NOVEMBER 2018 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY : U.S. Army Medical Research Development Command established at Fort Detrick, MD. 10 Daylight Savings Time Ends : Surgeon General Lovell gets whiskey removed from the ration; sugar and coffee replace it : William Hamrick becomes the first Medical Service Corps Brig. Gen. U.S. Marine Corps Birthday : End of World War I Veteran s Day : Active duty strength of medical, dental and veterinary officers of the AMEDD was 989 MC, 229 DC, and 115 VC Thanksgiving Day 1902: Maj. Walter Reed, Medical Corps, dies from peritonitis after an appendectomy NOTES Army Medicine Observances Warrior Care Month National Diabetes Month Tobacco Cessation Month ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE...CONSERVING THE FIGHTING STRENGTH SINCE 1775!

26 Readiness is foremost, and we must maintain the ability to flex with our service to provide the right capability [and to continue] to meet or exceed national quality care standards in our garrison environment. ~ Lt. Gen. Nadja Y. West The Surgeon General and Commanding General U.S. Army Medical Command

27 DECEMBER 2018 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY : The 818th Hospital Center (later the 818th Medical Brigade) reorganizes and is redesignated as the 818th Medical Detachment. 8 Hanukkah Begins : The first nurses (all males) reported for airborne training : The U.S. Army s twentyfirst hospital ship was named The Ernestine A. Koranda in honor of Lieutenant Koranda, ANC, who died in an airplane crash on 19 December 1943 in Hanukkah Ends the Southwest Pacific. U.S. National Guard Birthday Pearl Harbor Rememberance Day Army vs. Navy football game 1941: Congress declares war on Japan : Dunham Army Hospital, Carlisle Barracks named in memory or Maj. Gen. George C. Dunham. 1899: Surgeon Paul F. Straub earns the Medal of Honor. Winter Begins 23/30 24/ : The 44th Medical Brigade is constituted in the Regular Army. New Year s Eve Christmas Day Kwanzaa NOTES Army Medicine Observances ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE...CONSERVING THE FIGHTING STRENGTH SINCE 1775!

28 ONE TEAM, ONE PURPOSE...CONSERVING THE FIGHTING STRENGTH SINCE 1775!